Grace Kelly's Oscar win as Best Actress in 1954 for "The Country Girl" is a complete miscarriage of justice and a total farce. All Grace did was wear glasses and frumpy clothes and talk in a monotone and for that, she beat out Judy Garland in "A Star is Born" and Dorothy Dandridge in "Carmen Jones"? As if!!
shareWell, I like the other 2 you mentioned, especially Judy, but I thought Grace Kelly did a fine job. I love the movie and watch it every time it comes on TV. I probably would have given her the Oscar too.
shareIt's been so long since I have seen either, but I feel Judy was really screwed... she was bi far a superior actress, although Grace was so lovely to behold on the silver screen. My guess is there were way more male voters back then. I think that Judy's troubles were seriously escalated due to her never receiving proper credit due from her peers... so sad. Thanks for nothing, Hollywood.
Ted in Gilbert, AZ
Grace Kelly deserved to win the academy award she was brillant in the role, she even looked pretty in those glasses and frumpy clothes.
This movie was fanatastic!
"Here's looking at you, kid."
she even looked pretty in those glasses and frumpy clothes.
Just as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor fans tend to do. or actually, almost all classic fans
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Grace Kelly was fantastic in The Country Girl and easily deserved the oscar. Unlike Judy Garland, Kelly went into this roll to show her diversity off as an actress, Garland's roll on the other hand, was a vehicle to get her an oscar. Kelly was extremely believable, whereas Garland just over acted the entire film. With that being said, Janet Gaynor in the original A Star is Born blows Garlands performance away!
share"Role", not "roll".
shareI think Grace did a wonderful job in the movie but the Oscar probably should've gone to Judy Garland. But I'm not going to be hostile towards Grace about it since it was out of her control - and she accepted it very graciously and the pictures of her holding her award are adorable.
shareI don't think Judy Garland deserved the Oscar. The quality of her films and the inactivity certainly didn't merit her the nod in my opinion and going into this I believe the vast majority of the critics poll was voting Grace Kelly as the winner. So how this ever turned into a robbery is absolutely absurd. Plus, she'd already won prior awards. Grace Kelly's track record within the last two years was already on the same level as Garland's and her performance in The Country Girl may not seem like much to the average viewer because it's such a restrained and very believable performance that is nothing short of great. Garland's was criminally over-the-top and she practically played herself. Grace Kelly deserved the nod on this one and the only reason why we argue about it today is because Garland is for some reason so beloved.
shareI basically agree with alienlanes05. I love Judy Garland, especially as a singer, and I think A Star Is Born is a good, entertaining movie, but it was a vehicle for Judy and it did have its faults. A lot of the humor in it to me is corny, and it presents a rather archaic view of Hollywood, in my opinion. It's a great movie to watch, and Judy is da bomb as an entertainer, but as for cinematic art, I'd have to go with Grace and The Country Girl.
shareI love how Kelly fans love to just dismiss Garland's performance as "over the top" only because Grace was so damn one-note and bland and monotone the entire movie, do you think it was over the top in comparison! Garland's was a tour de force. Kelly didn't do anything in her movie. Just walk around delivering her lines in a flat monotone manner and looking tired. It's a joke she won for that. Garland's performance in A Star is Born gave me goosebumps.
"Farewell Ethel Barrymore, I must tear myself from your side" *rip*
And I love how Garland fans describe Kelly's as "monotone" only because Judy is so over the top.
I agree Judy is better but you are being exactly like the Kelly fans, you know. Besides, everyone really knows Judy is the triple threat; why not let Grace shine?
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Why don't you just say, "Hey all, i'm a dumbass who knows jack *beep* about acting." and move on.
shareThe academy awarding the far right leaning Grace Kelly an Oscar over the great performances of Judy Garland or Dorothy Dandridge that year rants with the progressive Edward G Robinson never receiving a nomination, Cary Grant never winning, or the superior Morgan Freeman losing to the fine, but unequal, Tom Hanks as some of the greatest miscarriages of justices of the Academy. Although William Holden's preformance in 'The Country Girl' is a very strong one; it is the surprising performance of Bing Crosby that steals the film. It is the film that Crosby should have justly won his Oscar for [not for 'Going My Way'].
shareBernard Tanner,
I agree with EVERYTHING you said in your post... word for word!
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